new comp!

so splashed out a bit and bought myself a computer capable of running BF3 and BFBC2 at more than 10 fps (which was roughly my average on low settings, and I can now run BFBC2 on high settings with everything turned on at 80 – 90 fps. This has to be the first time in a long while I can actually play BF games at a level of detail they were designed at, I’m pretty excited about it!

core i3 2100
asrock z68 pro3
8 GB 1600 DDR3 ram.

Anyway, the core i3 2100 is dual core, but with hyperthreading it still manages to beat the pants of most of AMD quad cores, Sandybridge which is low end I know, but I did make sure I got a decent motherboard with the z68 chipset so I can upgrade to core i7’s in the future (sandybridge or the upcoming ivybridge)when they become more reasonable. It also has the abilitiy to cache your games or whatever files on a small cheap SSD which can apparently improve performance quite significantly without installing your OS on a seperate SSD, or install an OS on an SSD and use any space left over to cache whatever games you are playing, it’s all very clever and the reviews seem to be positive, but I’m not using that just yet. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/intel-z68-chipset-smart-response-technology-ssd-caching-review/1

I paid £234 for the above which is a decent sum for something that I can easily upgrade with a new processor in the coming couple of years, I’m quite happy with it, but I’m sure Doc will point out some errors in my purchasing like a clock locked processor which I can’t OC (I rarely OC anyway, so I’m not that fussed), but rest assured, I went with a system I could upgrade at a cheap price.